Find a teacher and devote yourself to the study, but in a balanced way, not a fanatical way.

Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.

The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.

Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?

The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.